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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole France
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Anatole France
Age: 80 †
Born: 1844
Born: April 16
Died: 1924
Died: October 12
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Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first City.....Out of generous dreams come beneficial realities. Utopia is the principle of all progress, and the essay into a better future.
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Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.
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Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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In order that knowledge be properly digested it must have been swallowed with a good appetite.
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In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
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Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
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Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
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